Granite Mountain Reservoir

Squaw Reservoir is located on Highway 447 about 17 miles North West of Gerlach, on the way to Cedarville. It was formerly known as Fisk Reservoir.

It was worked on and possibly built by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC).

References

• Squaw Valley Reservoir (Wikipedia)
• GNIS
• Granite Range (1894, Rp. 1923) (UNR) shows Squaw Valley.
• Renee Corona Kolvet, Victoria Ford, "The Civilian Conservation Corps in Nevada: From Boys to Men," Description of a CCC camp in Gerlach by Claude Chadwell. "Fisk Reservoir [Squaw Creek Reservoir] is still there"
• Geophysical Investigations of the Smoke Creek Desert and their Geologic Implications, Northwest Nevada and Northeast California